Fellowship of the Data — International RDM Community Meeting 2025

Speakers & Organizers

Speakers

Discover our exciting line-up!

 

	TBA TBA (RDM Landscape) NFDI, Germany
	Britta Petersen ORCID: 0000-0002-0355-2594 Keynote 1: Learning Objectives as a Starting Point for the Development of Trainings for (Future) Data Stewards Kiel University, Germany "Research data management means structured collection, storage, documentation and sharing of data and thus has a significant contribution to the traceability, transparency and reproducibility of scientific results."
	Mijke Jetten ORCID: 0000-0001-9114-2896 Keynote 1: FAIR Data Stewardship: Bridging Training, Practice, and Community Building. Examples from a Global and National (The Netherlands) Perspective Health-RI / ELIXIR-NL, The Netherlands "Good RDM requires cultural and organisational changes, but I’m confident that we can make a difference through training and community building."
	Kevin Lindt ORCID: 0000-0003-3633-1349 Keynote 2: Rent a Data Steward: Two Companions for All — a Travelogue from Thuringia Technische Universität Ilmenau / Thuringian Competence Network for Research Data Management (TKFDM), Germany "RDM helps me to reduce searching times and makes an often overlooked part of my work as a researcher more visible — it's a useful tool, not a burden!"
	Stefan Kirsch ORCID: 0009-0004-0638-4639 Keynote 2: Rent a Data Steward: Two Companions for All — a Travelogue from Thuringia Ernst-Abbe-Hochschule Jena University of Applied Sciences / Thuringian Competence Network for Research Data Management (TKFDM), Germany "RDM is the toolbox to handle the digitisation of science." (Wolf Zinke)
	Michael Feichtinger ORCID: 0000-0003-0558-7552 Keynote 2: An Ecology of Data Stewards: Building a Data Stewardship Network at the University of Vienna University of Vienna / ELIXIR-AT, Austria "RDM means treating your dataset like a pet: feed it metadata, groom it with backups, and hope it doesn’t embarrass you in the company of others."
	Antje Manske ORCID: 0009-0001-0248-4462 Keynote 3: Be an Agent of Change – How to Support Culture Change in Research Data Management GESIS – Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences / Base4NFDI, Germany "Well-executed research data management can serve as a catalyst for knowledge growth and for solving societal challenges more quickly and comprehensively."
	Samantha Pearman-Kanza ORCID: 0000-0002-4831-9489 Keynote 4: I can’t record it for you, but I can provide you with a Digital Notebook — The daring journey of the pre-requisites and hurdles of Digital Notetaking University of Southampton / Physical Sciences Data Infrastructure (PSDI), United Kingdom "Data is the cornerstone of scientific research, and therefore the proper management of that data is of the utmost importance."

 

Organizers

	Cora Assmann ORCID: 0000-0001-5072-0661 Friedrich Schiller University Jena / Thuringian Competence Network for Research Data Management (TKFDM), Germany „I am organizing this conference to create a vibrant platform for networking and knowledge exchange among professionals in RDM. By sharing best practices and fostering collaboration, we aim to empower our community and advance the field together."
	Nils-Christian Lübke Forschungszentrum Jülich / de.NBI ELIXIR-DE, Germany „I regard possibilities for exchanging experiences as well as opportunities to network in high value to broaden the angle on your own professional field and work. I hope the “Fellowship of the Data” may support this experience for all participants”
	Elena Rey Mazón ORCID: 0000-0003-4813-5927 Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research (IPK) / FAIRagro, Germany "With a strong community of data stewards and trainers on RDM, we will be able to assert our ideas and convey them better to the scientific community."
	Jeanne Wilbrandt ORCID: 0000-0002-0363-3837 Leibniz Institute on Aging - Fritz Lipmann Institute (FLI) / de.NBI ELIXIR-DE, Germany "I always draw a tremendous amount of motivation from networking and conferences. It gets even better with lots of room for exchange and community, so I hope what we shaped here excites many of our peers as well!"